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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-11

IA Thoroughbred Bulls from eight to eighteen
months old and 20 Cows and Heifers- The
above are all pure bred registed stock or eligible
70 registry, of good milking and beef strains
oyerfed. are In good breeding condition, and
all that are old enough have been bred 70 tie
pure-bred show bull
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-11
INSURANCE..
JAMES V. MAYHEM

JAMES Y. MAYHEM.
AGENT Insurance co. or NORTH AMERICA.
Mineral Point, " sconsln. The oldest and largest
Company in America. 81 years successful bust
ness experience. Cash capital, 5000. 10000.
Cash assets January /, 1885, 80, OS7, 23j, 40.
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Special Notice.
Herewith that hare nsoued stock consisting of
MONUMENTS. HEAD STONES.

AND A LARGE QUANTITY OF ROUGH
From, the old Shepard stand to the ROSS BUILDING
east of the Cy Hail. ere UilI be conveniently
nUite to and look at stock Wse
have of lou as anything
this line be sold by and guarantee marble
and workmanship and warrant stone to be
base be obtained for this II using Sand
stone; but get Limestone bases Indanae best
naretJ hare large outfit of Granite designs select from
and also specimens of Granite and haze ordered carload of
Granite monuments to be here the I Apr buying
large quantities able to self at the IoOes prices
My asent j. B. REYNOLDS of this city, still
the Novs call on all paytte.
need of Marble and Granite headsones
Marble Granite and Limestone cybine single posts Of all
kinds in Marble Granite Limestone; he cheap
you buy the shop.
Remainder my stand of the city and don't let
anybody make believe that he sell cheaper
Mineral Point Marble Works Nth tho pu6lc for
a liberal patronage Yours Respectfully
B. BECKER.
. ProOvietor Of the Mineral Point Marble Works.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-11

WILLIAM EASTMAN, VI. D..
Physician and Surgeon. Office up stairs
in Lenahan's block, opposite First National bank
Mineral Point Wis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-11

~rhis train leaves Madison at 20 y nj sun.
DAYS instead of Saturdays.
J. NJ. SANDS Agent Dodgevile.
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WAR.

Yes, l am tired of the interminable Gen.
tury articles, tired of the Lowell lectures
on battles, tired OF the war scenes which
General Grant has depicted-the sharing
and promoting OF which led that great
soldier to hate the sight OF a review. |
will not say with General Sherman in his
speech to the young men Of Ohio, "Young
men, war is HE'LL" But a battle is not
the place poets picture or historians de-
scribe. Fiction is never more untrue
than when 1T poItrays one. Music and
uniforms enlist men as soldiers, but cease
to dazzle little after. The idleness OF
a camp or barracks, only broken into by
gambling and drunkenness, where rough
men are unrefined and unrestrained by
the presence of wife, sister or child; this
is the soldier life between battles and in
time of peace.
Joaquin Miller describes war as have
witnessed it.
81 tell you to see the man at your side
Sink down as you hear that siekening thud-
To look in his face aud see the blood
Slow oozing from lips that have lost their pride
l tell you 10 see his trimming eyes swim
tell you to see him clutch at the mould
And grasp at the grass as if TO hold
The earth from passing away from him."
Boston EUening Transcript.
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THE DUTIES OF GUESTS.

Much has been written about the art
of entertaining and the duties Of host
esq, but is there no obligation on the
other side? To be a really acceptable
guest requires infinite tact, or else pos
session of most of the cardinal virtues.
How many guest has gone home little
less liked by the hostessl A little care
and thoughtfulness will make visiting"
less trying ordeal. In the first place, it
is better to understay rather than over
stay an invitation, and it is pleasanter
for both parties il the length Of the visit
desired is stated beforehand by the host
ess Perhaps the most consideration of
all is that the family routine should be
disturbed as little as possible. Be up in
time for breakfast and prompt at all
meals. Do not ask for tea or milk at odd
Remember you are not at hotel. / once
saw lady guest call for olives when they
were not on the bill Of fare, and the host.
ess has never forgotten this particular act
of rudeness. Make as little trouble as
possible.
If there is only one overworked servant
why not make your own bedP
Have some employment of your own as
an excuse for retiring to your own room
for some time each day. Do not follow
your hostess about all the time, as she
generally has many duties, and especially
respect private rooms. unless particularly
invited to them. Do not give your wash
ing to the house. servant. Pay for your
own luggage in coming and going, il
public conveyance is employed, and do
not sponge upon your hostess for car fare
and trivial expenses. These little things
make many a friendship less warm. You
certainly would not take one of your
friends with you unless particularly in
vited to do 30 by the hostess. Do not
demand too much attention. Be easily
pleased and chime in most cordially with
anything proposed. Try to please the
tastes of your hostess in every way. Con-
suit their likes and dislikes even in man.
ners Of dress; be interested in what in
terests them; be sure not to hurt their
feelings. Do not criticise the family you
visit; admire what is good; do not notice
the rest. Do not always tell of the fine
things you have seen or eaten elsewhere
Help your hostess; amuse a child or en-
terrain other guests. Show your love for
your hostess in all little ways. Give the
servant who waits upon You some money.
1t makes it easier for the mistress if the
servants do "not object to company"
Try to make some return for your visits
either an invitation, timely gift, or
at least honestly expressed gratitude or
appreciation. Lastly, study some one
who is an ever-welcome guest and try to
grasp her secret.--A. M. Turner.
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PROElr In EARNING.

This subject has been frequently no.
ticed in these columns, with regret that
there was so little accurate data upon
which positive assertions could be based.
So few farmers keep accurate accounts.
and business and personal expenses are
80 intertwined, that the profits of farm
ing cannot be ascertained so readily as
the profits of mercantile or other bust
ness operations.
At recent grange meeting in Michi-
gan, a member presented some figures
which are very suggestive. The figures
are adapted to the latitude OF Michigan,
but they may set others to observing
and closer accounting, and may this be
promotive of some good. This Michigan
Patron of Husbandry found that it cost
him 621S cents per bushel to produce
and market wheat. At the time his COM
putatione were made, the market price was
IS cents-making profit on wheat OF 30
per cent. Wheat is not much OF New Eng
land crop and his figures on corn will prove
more interesting. Corn cost him 2O.2 cents
and the market price was % cents, max
ing the profit on that staple crop % per
cent. His profit on oats was only two
per cent; the cost being 29.2 cents and
the market price 80 cents. But the per-
centage of profit on hay was much the
largest. The cost of producing and mar
ketmg was $4.49 per ton, and the market
price was $500, giving profit of ninety
nine per cent. We imagine that there
would be much more satisfaction with
farming if there was more systematic
keeping of accounts. - Netv England
Farmer.
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A STARTLING PREDICTION.

Two hundred years ago in China there
was just such a craze about natural gas
as we have in this country to. day. Gas
wells we're sunk with as much vim and
vigor as the Celestials were capable Of,
but owing to gas explosion that killed
several millions of people and tore up
and destroyed large district OF country,
leaving large inland sea, known on the
maps as Lake Foo Chang, the boring Of
any more gas wells was then and there
prohibited by law. It seems, according
to Chinese history, that many large and
heavy pressure gas wells were struck, and
in some districts wells were sunk quite
near to each other. Gas was lighted as
soon as struck, as is done in this country.
It is stated that one we'll with its unusual
pressure, by introduction or back
draught, pulled down into the earth the
burning gas Of smaller well, resulting
in dreadful explosion Of large district,
destroying the inhabitants thereof. Lake
Foo Chang rests on THE district. The
same catastrophe is imminent in tbiscoun
try unless the laws restrict further de-
velopments in boring so many wells.
Should similar explosion occur there
will be such an upheaval as will dwarf
the most terrible earthquakes ever known.
The country along the gas belt from To-
ledo through Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky will be ripped up to the depth Of
1900 to 1900 feet and Topped over like a
pancake, leaving chasm through which
the waters of Lake Erie will come howl
ing down, filing the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys, and plotting them out forever
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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EXTRACTS FROM RURAL
HOURS"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. J

There is a tradition that during the
war of the Revolution the long spines Of
the thorn were occasionally used by the
American women for pins, none OF which
were manufactured in the country; prob
ably it was the cockspur variety, which
bears the longest and most sleI der
spines, and is now in flower. The pecu-
liar condition of the colonies rendered
privations of this kind great additional
evil of that memorable struggle; almost
every thing in the shape Of the necessa-
ries and luxuries of life came then from
the Old World. Several native plants
were prepared at that time to take the
place of the prohibited Soouchong and
Bohea-the "New Jersey tea" for in
stance, pretty shrub, and the "Labra-
dor tea," low evergreen with handsome
white flowers" 4 or some hundred
and fifty grasses, about one-fifth of the
number seem of foreign origin; but if we
consider their importance to the farmer
and the extent OF cultivated soil they now
them. Probably in this sense the native
grasses scarcely rank more than as one
to four in our meadows and cultivated
lands. The clovers, though thoroughly
naturalized, are most of them imported
plants; the downy rabbit foot" or "stone
clover" the common red variety, the 'zig-
gag" and the chop clovers" are all intro
duced. The question regarding the white
clover has not been clearly settled, but it
is usually considered, believe, as indi-
genous, though some botanists mark the
point as doubtful. The buffalo clover,
found in the western part of this State
and common still further westward, is the
only undoubtedly native variety we pos
sess.
There is one brilliant but noxious
plant found among the corn fields of Eu-
rope which is not seen in our owD, and
that is the gaudy red poppy. So COM
mon is this brilliant weed among the
European grain fields, that there is lit
tie insect, an ingenious, industrious, lit
tie creature, who invariably employs it
in her cell. This wild bee, called the up
holsterer bee from it's habits, leads SOL
itary life, but she takes a vast deal of
pains in behalf of her young About the
time when the wild poppy begins to bios
som, this little insect flies into corn
field, looks out for dry spot of ground,
usually near some pathway. Here she
bores hole about three inches in depth,
the lower portion being wider than the
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Flanders, Italy, and, perhaps, France.
He was not the Byron who had sailed
for the East about seven years before
July 2, 1909, but man whom death had
saddened, marriage maddened, and his
countrymen enthroned and dethroned. A
hayward soul, whose wisdom was wholly
of the dark things of life, he was bruised,
but not broken; for the strife through
which he had passed had armed him
with stronger powers Of resistance. 1t
had driven him back upon himself, upon
the might of his genius, which was hence
forth to be his sole dependence and sole
consolation. A cloud was lifted from him
as the shores of England sank below
the waters, and the wings of his song rose
above them.-R. Fl. Stoddard, in Neao
Princeton ReUieaU.
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A FINE BIT OF ROCKY SCENERY

A FINE BIT OF ROCKY SCENERY.
One of the finest bits OF rocky scenery
I remember to have seen anywhere is
within three days easy ride on the North
ern Pacific Railroad, and on the road to
Cooke City mines. A long valley OF some
twenty-fo miles leads easily up to the
divide, from the East Fork of the Yellow
stone, narrowing as it rises. Some seven
or eight miles from Cooke, on the left as
you ascend, vast wall of basalt rises
almost sheer from the bed of the stream.
It cannot be less than three thousand five
hundred feet in height, and should fancy
is over mile along its base. When first
looked up at it, its great, dark breast was
braided all over with a hundred milky,
wavy, flashing waterfalls. For a week
we had almost continuous rain, and these
warm showers, for it was July, had hast
ened the destruction Of the snow-beds on
its crown, and down to the valley fell or
trickled, literally, hundreds of streams,
separating, spreading, uniting and spread
ing again, as they crept or Numbered
downward. No words can convey any
idea of the mingled beauty and grandeur
OF falling water and immovable basslt
when smitten by the glory of the setting
sun. One autumn evening, two years
after, we camped at the same spot. We
were smoking the last pipe Of peace be-
fore turning in, when one of our party
noticed clear light falling on the sum-
NIT above us. As we watched, the light
creep slowly downward; at first we scarce
ly realized it was the moon. We were
down, remember, in veritable chasm,
one side of which-the side before us
was about three thousand feet higher
than the other, and thus the moonbeams
lit up its edge long before they touched
the little prairie at its feet, where our
camp lay. A great belt Of clouds lay on
the rocky ridge at our back, and athwart
these the moonlight passed, casting their
moving shadows on the great, gray mir
TOR we we're looking up at. What gro
tesque shapes they took, as they wound
and unwound their long foldsl There
we sat and watched them, until at last
such moonlight as You can only see when
you are almost seven thousand feet
above the damper, denser air in which
ordinary life is to be sustained, fell full
into the gorge.-From Stamping and
Hunting IN the Shoshone," IN Scribner's
Magazine for September.
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BYRON'S SUDDEN FAME AND
EXI

Byron woke up one morning and found
himself famous, for the publication of
"Childe Harold" was the sudden making
of splendid name. He was praised by
everybody, sought by everybody, and
whirled along in the fashionable festivi-
ties and follies of the time. Lords, ladies,
commoners all were at his feet. That
he should enjoy the social triumphs
which were thrust upon him was but nat
ural, when one considers his eager tenn
permanent, his proud nature, his hunger
and thirst for distinction, and that he
had only just completed his twenty-fourth
year. Ii, he had not been elated he would
have been more or less than the man he
was. But not all was citation with him,
for while he was conscious of the come
illness Of his person, his handsome, SEN
sitive face and eloquent eyes, he was also
conscious of his deformity, and often.
while he was hobbling from one fair wor-
shipper to another, he remembered the
time when his mother called him "lame
DIhls 1uc DJEOA WhOA buo WOIAA Ed"
on his return from the East was not the
Byron who had left England, for the two
years which had passed in the interval
had strengthened his powers, if they had
not mstured his character, and had cast
over his life the shadow of settled
gloom.
Byron was at war with the world, and
the world was too strong for him, as it
always is for any one man. He might
have maintained the fight longer than he
did, but where was the use of fighting
longer when the field was lost? England
had declared against him, and there was
nothing left but to leave England. So,
to save himself from Punishment, he went
into exile. He sailed for Ostend on April
25, 1916, intending TO travel in Switzerland,
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5sarrm, 9tnnne and Gardem.
For THE UNIvERsALIsT.
DO INSECTS REASON?
BY NOBLE M. EBERHART.
ed. 1.-The Insect WORLDLY

The question whether or not, the
lover animals are possessed of reason
ing faculties is one that has been much
discussed. A large number of people,
and notably, too, those who have never
paid much attention to the habits of an
imals ascribe their intelligence to blind
instinct.
Now il insects perform their various
labors purely instinctively, why is it that
when placed in certain circumstances,
which they surely could never have been
placed in previously, they act in such a
manner and with such intelligence, that
their actions could not possibly be from
mere instinct. We will cite one or two
instances.
Have you not noticed that when an ant
undertakes to drag too heavy load, and
finds it impossible, it Immediately seeks
one of its fellows, and appears TO hold an
animated conversation through the me-
dunn of it's autenns, or "feelere." When
he has sufficiently enlightened his COM
rade, both repair to the troublesome bur-
den and exert their combined strength.
Ii this is insufficient they seek the assis-
lance OF other ants.
Now does not this seem to be an intel
ligent voluntary act, prompted by reason
ing faculties? Hube relates that one
autumn some honey was placed in an
open window, and the bees resorted to it
in multitudes. Then the honey was
removed and the shutters closed for the
winter. In the spring when the shutters
were opened, the bees again swarmed
around, evidently remembering the honey
that had previously been placed there.
When the deaths head moth made its
appearance, and the bees constructed a
barrier against it, this could not have
been result of instinct, as nothing sim
liar had ever formerly happened, and
hence no instructive mode of operation
could have been handed down from their
ancestors. Then the fact, also, that the
barriers were constructed differently in
different hives, is another argument.
Finally, upon dissecting an insect it
Is found to have dubious thread of gan
glia, or nerve-centers, running through
it. These gaDglia, when analysed, are
found to consist of the same matter as
the human brain, hence this dubious
thread is properly called insect brain
Now, what is this brain for, if it is not
the seat of a central directing power?
Would it have been placed there if it
had no useP These questions answer
themselves, and certainly, upon consid-
ering the subject carefully, there can be
no doubt that inscts reason.
Chicago Laa0n, Aug Fl, 1887.
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HEAT AND THE DRY WEATHER

HEAT AND THE DRY WEATHER.
The heat and the dry weather the past
summer have affected unfavorably NEST
OF the cultivated crops of this county.
1t hes been a remarkable season on &C.
count of the high temperature which has
prevailed with but few intermissions,
during the three months that have just
passed. Over large region of territory,
from the central part of this State west
ward to the Rocky Mountains, there has
rain, this deficiency being greatest in the
States lying on the Missisfippi river and
westward, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, and
the region beyond have suffered most
severely, but Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
and the western half of this State have
had their crops badly shortened by the
same causes. An additional source of
loss has resulted from the depredatiops
of insects, favored by heat and drynees
which have bred with great rspidity. A
short harvest of wheat, hay grain and pota-
toes will be general, except in the Eastern
and some of the other Atlantic States.
In ell this troubled region there have
been here and there scattered localities
of moderate areas that have been favor
ed with showers sufficient to bring on the
crops in fair condition. So there are
some few among the many cultivators
that have been extremely fortunate.
Garden vegetables and small fruits
have especially suffered from the heat and
drought, and cases are reported Of apple
trees, that have been we'll set dropping
their fruit, ell for the lack of moisture.
Light and poor soils ano lands INSULT
GENTLY drained have been most seriously
affected, while well drained, we'll manur-
ed lands that have been properly worked
have produced the best results, especial
ly when planted early and crops were
well advanced when the hot weather
came. These facts indicate the line on
which the successful cultivator should
work.-Vick's Magazine for September.
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mouth-and quite toll it must be to so
small creature to make the excavations
1t is very much as il man were to clear
out the cellars for large house with his
hands only. But this is only the begin
ming of her task. When the cell is com.
pleted che then flies away to the nearest
poppy, which, as she very we'll knows.
cannot be very far off in corn field.
She cuts out bit of the scarlet flower,
carries it to the nest, and spreads it on
the floor like carpet. Again she re-
turns to the blossom, and brings home
another piece, which she lays over the
first. When the floor is covered with sew
eral layers of this soft scarlet carpeting,
she proceeds to line the sides throughout
in the same way, until the whole is we'll
surrounded with these handsome hang
ings. This brilliant cradle she makes
for one little bee, laying only single
egg among the flower leaves.
Honey and bee-bread are then collected,
and piled up to the height of an inch;
and when this store is completed, the
scarlet curtains are drawn close over the
whole, and the cell is closed, the careful
mother replacing the earth as neatly as
possible, so that after she has finally
smoothed the spot over, it is difficult to
discover a cell you may have seen open
the day before.
A gentleman had directed a wagon to
be packed with hampers and boxes, in
tending to send it some distance; it's de-
parture was delay ed, however, and it was
placed under a shed packed as it was.
While there, a pair of robins built their
nest among some straw in the wagon,
and had Matched their young just before
it was sent away. One of the old birds,
instead or being frightened away by the
motion of the wagon, only left its nest
from time to time, for the purpose of fly
ing to the nearest hedge for food for it's
young, and thus alternately affording
warmth and nouris hment to them, it ar
rived at Worthing. The affection of the
bird being observed by the WAGNER, he
took care in unloading not to disturb the
robins nest, and my readers will, am
sure, be glad to hear that the robin and
it's young ones returned safely to Walton
Heath, that being the place from whence
they set out The distance the wagon
went in going and returning, could not
have been less than one hundred miles.
The yellow butterflies are the earliest
to come, and the last to leave us; they
seem more social in their habits than
most of their kind, for you generally see
them in parties, often in the meadows,
often in the highways. Not long since
we saw troop of these little creatures, a
dozen or more, 1uttering over a muddy
spot In the road, as they often do
whether to drink or not, do not know;
there was cottage and a blacksmith
shop close at hand, and a pretty white
kitten had strayed out to sun herself
As we came to the spot, puss was in the
1Gidst of the butterflies, and at quiet,
gentle play with them; they did not seem
to mind her good-natured taps at all,
avoiding them by fitting about, but
without any sign of alarm.-Susdn FenS-
more Cooper.